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toolchain
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A collection of tools used to develop for a particular hardware target, or
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to work with a particular data format (thus the Crusoe development , or the
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DocBook ). Often used in the context of building software on one system
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which will be installed or run on some other device; in that case the chain
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of tools usually consists of such items as a particular version of a
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compiler, libraries, special headers, etc. May also be used of
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text-formatting, page layout, or multimedia tools which render from some
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markup to a variety of production formats. Differs from toolkit in that the
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former implies a collection of semi-independent tools with complementary
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functions, while implies that each of the parts is a serial stage in a
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rather tightly bound pipeline. Seems to have become current in early 1999
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and 2000; now common.
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